New Mexicans remember 9/11/01
Posted at: 09/11/2009 8:23 AM
| Updated at: 09/11/2009 12:52 PM
By: Austin Reed, Eyewitness News 4, and Reed Upton, KOB.com
An American flag draped from to AFD ladder trucks on Civic Plaza
In the Albuquerque area, 2,998 flags were placed in Vista Verde Memorial Park in Rio Rancho – one flag for each person killed when the twin World Trade Center towers collapsed.
In Albuquerque, a group of off duty firefighters continued a memorial begun in 2003 – the second anniversary of the attacks – when they meet at the fire academy and board spare fire trucks.
At precisely 9:08, the exact time the first plane struck one of the twin towers, the firefighters were dispatched to the Bank of Albuquerque building in Downtown and climbed the 22 story building five times in 35 pounds worth of gear.
“That is 110 stories,” says Melissa Romero of AFD. “The same height as the twin towers.”
At the University of New Mexico, the school’s College Republicans will place a flag for each of the 9/11 victims across the north lawn of the Duck Pond.
At noon, Mayor Martin Chavez and members of the City Council commemorated 9/11 with a ceremony on Civic Plaza where the U.S. Naval Academy Band performed.
In Santa Fe, first responders will participate in a memorial parade honoring the first reponders who died responding to the attacks. The 1:00 parade will travel south on Bishop's Lodge Road/Washington Avenue to Palace, Palace to Cathedral Place, Cathedral Place to East San Francisco and then west on Old Santa Fe Trail to the state capitol.
And this evening, a 7:00 special day of remembrance and candlelight vigil at the National Hispanic Cultural Center at Eighth and Bridge will be the end point for a community procession through Barelas. The procession will be headed by city and county firefighters and will begin at Sacred Heart Church.
Eyewitness News 4 is monitoring the remembrances happening in the Albuquerque area. For the latest, tune into Eyewitness News 4 Middday at noon.
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